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Mar 28, 2015 | 5:21 am

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DaveNCL

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Originally Posted by Odarth

Hi all
I have a rather related question...
When last fall I booked my summer trip, the departure time of BA389 was 6:40 for July 17. Later it changed to 7:40, and i didn't really care because this can happen when one books a flight so long in advance.
Now I begin the detail preparation of these holidays, and I see that i have only 1h35 layover time in LHR, which sounds short to get the connecting flight to Dallas as i have to take the bus with my 3 kids to transit from terminal 5 to terminal 3. nevermind.
This makes me look at the usual BA389 scheduled vs actual time and I noticed that the flight departure time change coincide with the daylight time change; ie. From this sunday onwards. Thinking about it, I'm pretty sure the initial change coincided with the daylight time change last october... Okay okay this sounds crazy... They couldn't have forgotten to apply DST shift just to that flight.
So I can only pray BA389 wont be delayed on July 17, that it won't make endless circles above London, and that after landing it won't takes long minutes taxiing to the gate.
But today i found this timetable: http://info.flightmapper.net/flight/...Airways_BA_389 http://info.flightmapper.net/flight/...Airways_BA_389
Where it states that BA389 departs at 6:40 effective from March 29 2015...
I don't understand it, but start hoping DST has really something to do in these changes, and next week it'll change back to 6:40 on my reservation

In my experience T3 transfer, even with the bus time isn't much different to T5>T5. It's been about a year since I did it but I'm sure there is a connections security rather than the connections queue joining normal security as in T5. YMMV as ever with any delays but I would worry too much BA will deal with you as long as it's on 1 PNR and this scenario should be the exception rather than the rule.

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